Its Ok, We can Stop Now

I tend to think outside the box. 🤷‍♀️

So playing a little bit of Devil’s Advocate.

Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.

Just because we can do something faster or easier doesn’t mean that’s the best for the individual, our families or Society.

We have entered an age where knowledge  has entered hyperdrive.

But is all of this knowledge being used by Society in ways that are best for mankind as a whole? Or does the selfish nature of mankind take over so that we just continue piling upon ourselves things we do not need for life, all for the glorification of our great knowledge?

Where is the limit? Where is the limit to knowledge, to books, to manufacturing and purchasing trillions of things not needed for life while our servants all around the world who make them for us go hungry or are even enslaved?

Or do we even know how to set limits anymore?

In our thirst for “Freedom” from Rules and limits, have we forgotten that those rules and limits are what protect us and keep us from death? Imagine America with no Lanes, stop signs, stop lights, curbs or any traffic rules. It’s bad enough that we break them, but could you imagine if they did not exist? Well that’s what we’re doing right now with all of our new found knowledge.

What rules? Rules of Truth, Justice, Mercy, Love, Kindness, Gentleness, Faithfulness, Goodness, Self-Control…

In our excitement of how great our knowledge is, have we forgotten completely that sometimes knowledge and speed really shouldn’t be the goal?

Faster isn’t always better…microwave dinner, or slow home cooked…?

It was never about how fast we could cook it, it was about the relationships developed in the process. Time spent cooking, time over the table eating, time spent cleaning up with laughter and soap suds.

“The loving Father desires Patient, relationship, not instant perfection.” (Youtube Mortality Motivation)

Speed and knowledge can not be the primary goal.  Relationships should be. And we cannot just say how use of AI or anything else just affects us.

The litmus test is, how does it affect the poor? Does it take away from them or add to them?

When we went crazy with manufacturing art and so many plates and clothes – we are the kings and queens of this world probably over at least 5 Millenia – we didn’t stop to consider how manufacturing would take away meaningful work from the entire right brained artisan/artist portion of society. We have created a society where only some can work. And then we bemoan why the others are not working.

I absolutely refuse to talk to a computer at a drive-thru. Nor will I talk to AI in an email when I’m looking at houses. And I let them know I will not talk to a computer I’m going to talk to a human. I find It ultimately sick that we just keep removing jobs that people that are poor or have brain processing issues, or just starting out in the work field could be doing because we want to do it cheaper and faster and better. But we don’t care about them at all. They are not even in the equation. The phrase “lack of love” comes to mind.

Instead of small communities looking to artisan Crafters to make tables and bowls and clothes through meaningful, rewarding work, the poor are shoved into factories and nobody. Even. Cares.

Music is played on our electronic device. And we Rejoice at the multitudes of our selections, while many children, teenagers and adults no longer have band instruments or orchestra instruments, guitar, piano that produce healthy brain patterns and give them an outlet that is healthy for life. We teach them to use electronic devices for music instead of helping train the brains through actual instruments. And we think nothing of it. Nobody Mourns the loss of the musicians. Personally, I think our home, the Earth itself does. I’m certain heaven does.

Those who are purely gifted at right brain tasks have no meaningful work for their Outlets most of them, because art is printed not created. Now we are even printing metal and not creating that either.

And for the wealthy, we can allow ourselves to feel wonderful for all of the electronic things we do. I’m not saying all of it is wrong. I’m saying Society is deeply harmed when no thought goes into how we use our time, our resources, our living spaces and our energy, not to mention our money, when no thought goes into how the use of those things affects the long-term use of Our Lives, our children’s lives, the next generations’ lives and the lives of the world around us.

Our children are deeply harmed when we have no structure or limits to knowledge or life. And we are seeing the fruit of death and what we have been sowing for the past hundred years. Unless we make dedicated systematic change, the destruction will continue. And it’s heartbreaking.

Healthy relationships and healthy lives are to be the goal. Contentment in life and satisfaction in a job well done, not a continual covering through what is exciting and interesting to hide our deep disatisfaction with life – and ourselves.

If a child’s goal is to get as much tasty sugar as they possibly can, that will only be sustainable for so long. At 3 or 5 years that may be seeming very great to get as much candy or cookies or ice cream as possible. But if they are not taught to limit their sugar intake, destruction will come.

Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.

While there are many positive things from the expansion through aircraft and ships and now internet reaching all over the world, we have virtually, no pun intended, pulled meaningful relationships and work from every ounce of society.

We have no relationship with the manufacturers of our clothing. We do not care about them. We don’t even know them.

The beautiful plates that go on our tables, we have no interaction with the souls that make them.

The same for the clothes and the many things not needed for life that we use for our daily living.

Relationship with the Creator, Sustainer, Redeemer, relationships with family, relationships with community, relationships with those around us in this beautiful world – that is what this generation is starving and thirsting for, but we cling with two hands to our tinsel Treasures, hands so full with so many things not needful for life, that we do not comprehend how to hold and retain in those same hands the life we were given.

We see that in shootings in schools and suicides, and depression rampant, and broken relationships, because the goal should have been the healthy relationships and lives to begin with, but the goal of our lives became so many other things.

When knowledge is used for the benefit of healthy relationships, it is in its place. But one must look at the whole picture, not just a part.

How does it truly affect the poor and the marginalized and how in the future will it affect those we love and the world around us?

If we teach our children they no longer need to know how to write, or no longer need medicine knowledge, or if we rely on electronics that right now or not monitored in healthy ways, how will that affect the next four generations? The Movie “Wally” comes to mind. Granted it’s a bit of a stretch, but right now I feel like I’m living in the Twilight Zone….

Becoming Amish might be the safest choice…. and I’ve been joking about this for about 7 years but I’m starting to take it seriously. I don’t want my children to to lose the ability to think. And if they rely on computer for their information and something evil takes over that computer as we’ve already seen in other countries, they will have already been programmed to believe everything we’ve taught them. To trust AI. To trust computers, because surely nothing bad would happen, just ask us.

There is only one Source of information I trust without hesitation. And it is one Source that has never failed me. I have failed. And people fail.

When any form of knowledge takes the place of relationships, death will occur. Emotional death. Mental death and eventually physical death. Because we were not made for stuff or things or knowledge, but for relationships and everything else was to be structured under that. It is only in deep relationships that are healthy that we have contentment and joy.

So how does AI build relationships between you and the people that are helping you to write? Or do we no longer need people to help us to write because we have ai? From my perspective that will eventually bring death. I do not say it can’t be used properly, but from my perspective over the past 100 years or so our Generations have not proven capable of setting healthy limits on knowledge to protect the relationships and the poor when we have had an increase knowledge.

Some knowledge is needed. Some knowledge is not. I’m thinking the world would have survived without microwaves. The world will not survive without food or cooking, but microwaves we could have gone an eternity without and no one would have died.

Obviously we have to have some form of knowledge for things and there is knowledge that is good, but even in the medical field, I’ve watched so many people living for medicine, spending lives from one unnecessary medical fad to another.

And we are so disconnected.  I see the Heartbreak and I hear the Heartbreak of this generation. They are not happy. They are hiding behind so many interesting, fun things. Hiding their deep hurt that they have never been loved with a love that shows them they are worth dying for.

Like any addictive cycle, healthy relationship was broken and so to fill the gap we chose stuff and knowledge to fill that spot, but the more we filled that spot with stuff and knowledge, the more relationships were broken. This cycle will not be sustainable.

So what do we do?

Maybe slow down, (…😊 those words sound like insults in this generation, but they are not…)

Maybe🤷‍♀️ find three people to help you write your articles and sit down over some coffee and tell AI, sorry, I can’t hang out with you today….

And, um, nope, I did not use AI to write this…🤷‍♀️😊 (the emoticons and grammatical errors are purely me….)


Hope you have wisdom and Grace as you discern how best to use these new tools given to our society. I just hope that you understand that it’s okay to say no. You don’t have to use AI. Truly you don’t have to. And I don’t know if anyone else will tell you that.

Wishing you the best as always.

God’s Peace.😊🙏